As I was leaving work one of my coworkers approached me and asked me if i could help one of our customers real quick, reluctantly I agreed and the following took place:<\/p>\n
Customer: “Do you know what the home depot tax id number is?” me:”for what purpose? what exactly are you looking for?” Customer: “well, I am trying to buy something but it needs to be a tax exempt sale” me:”oh, yeah that would be a number that you have which was issued by the IRS.\u00a0 We dont keep them on file unless you’ve registered with us on our website.\u00a0 Once you register with us, we still dont keep it on file but we simply issue a random number that goes into a database that identify you as a tax exempt customer” Customer:”Really? because Lowe’s looked it up last night” me:”that is very cool, but we dont have those capabilities” Customer:”okay, well, uhmm yeah” me:”do you know if your organization has registered with us?” Customer looks at me as if i were an idiot\u00a0 me:”let me show you” At this point I proceed to open my browser and go to our website and show him all the steps that he needs to take in order to register as a tax exempt customer me:”once you do that you can either bring in the paperwork that the website tells you to print and\/or at the time of the sale you tell us that you are tax exempt and to have us look you up.\u00a0 We can look you up by either phone number and\/or name of the organization.\u00a0 Unless you do this there is no other way for you to get the tax exempt privilege” Customer:”really” me:”Yes, other than that I dont have another way to do so.\u00a0 I cannot sit here and wave my magic wand and conjure it out of thing air, that is the only way” at this point the customer’s voice, body language, and overall demeanor changed and then he just started looking at me really angry.\u00a0 After a few more minutes he seemed “satisfied” with my answer and he walked away.\u00a0 It was at this moment that I looked at his t-shirt closely and realized that he was wearing a Harry Potter t-shirt!!! bwaahahha yeah I think I offended him without even meaning to.\u00a0 Have I developed a sick six sense to be able to offend people without even meaning to?\u00a0 Sometimes I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I was leaving work one of my coworkers approached me and asked me if i could help one of our customers real quick, reluctantly I agreed and the following took place: Customer: “Do you know what the home depot tax id number is?” me:”for what purpose? what exactly are you looking for?” Customer: “well, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}